Peter Clark wrote: > Hello all, > > Not really understanding the -U (reuses) flag, is there an advantage to > using it? I imagine that there is in some specific instances so I better > ask the question differently. When would it be advantageous to use the > -U flag in cyrus.conf? > > ie: > imap cmd="imapd -U 60" listen="imap" prefork=6 If process creation is expensive on your system, it's good to reuse an existing imapd process as many times as possible to avoid the fork() overhead. If there's a bad memory leak in imapd, you'd want it to exit often and have a new one be spawned so you don't exhaust virtual memory on your system. hth, Dave -- Dave McMurtrie, SPE Email Systems Team Leader Carnegie Mellon University, Computing Services ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
